[NEW RELEASE] THE CHRISTOPHERS Steven Soderbergh From Friday, May 15th Film info: 100 mins, UK-USA, 2025, Digital Notes by David O'Mahony Gifted art restorer Lori (Michaela Coel) has been engaged by the estranged children of Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen), a once infamous, now reclusive, London artist, to help them in a scheme to secure their inheritance. Posing as Sklar's new assistant, Lori is to complete the titular series of unfinished portraits so that they can be posthumously discovered' and sold. Needless to say, all does not go to plan in Steven Soderbergh's delightfully acerbic, beautifully performed two-hander.